Garrison Gold Crisis

“Wanna put a new Large Building on that empty plot? How about another Profession Building or a Salvage Yard across from your Engineering Building?”

“All you need is a few thousand gold and some resources! I happen to have some plans right here…”

That’s how it’s been going.

After I wasted a few hours taking care of my “higher level” Garrisons, I wanted to spend a little time questing/skinning with my Priest so my Leatherworker and Tailor had mats to actually do something.

I had posted a whole bunch of ore/herbs on the AH the previous day and nothing sold – nothing – so I’m down to my last 2K gold across all my characters.

I even dragged my Shadow Priest out for the fishing daily and wasted more time running around Gorgrond looking for the “good” fishing spot.

By the time I found it, I was tired of the whole idea of fishing and anyway, I never got any bait so I was getting mostly Crescent fish, so I ditched my plans to fish up 100 for the Achievement, fished up enough for the quest and got the heck out of there.

I even dragged her through some “Bonus” stuff she missed on the way just for the 62 gold.

Yeah, how sad is that when you have to take your level 100 through questing Bonus areas just for a few gold because you’re broke from Garrisons.

I must admit that having 3 level 3 Menageries has paid off in pets. Yesterday, my Warlock snagged the Ghastly Kid from the pet bag so I’m 2/7.

I logged in with my Skinning Priest, did a few more quests and skinned everything in my path. I was doing fine when I dinged level 92.

Then some guy comes up to me with a quest and says I’m needed back at my Garrison.

Foolishly, I believed him and went back only to be cajoled into spending all my questing gold for a Level 2 Town Hall and more gold for a couple of new buildings.

So…I’m thinking that it might be smarter to give my Skinning Priest the Barn since she’s out and about questing anyway, and ditch the Barn on my Monk and get something more useful.

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Haha! Not that lucky with pets either since I have yet to see the MC pet, the mining pet or the herb garden pet 😛

It’s the MC pet that makes me cry. We’re talking about 3-4 HOURS (queue time and actually getting to Rag) so maybe I can do one a night on one character IF I can find a block of 4 hours without interruptions.

It costs a lot to switch out buildings. It means you are paying twice. You’re wasting a lot of gold that way. Keep what you have and when you have enough for another character to build something, build what you need on that one.

Ahhh, don’t feel bad. *hugs* I have a character that does enchanting and tailoring, so, I know how you feel. She wasn’t going to go to Draenor for a while, however, I had run experience up to the point that I had to take her there – she’s very “poor”.

What I have done to get back into the money a bit is to “twink” her so that she doesn’t level up more and went back to Pandaria to do some rep grinding and questing to get gold – there is more gold back there. I take her back to Draenor every couple of days to get her “resources” for the Garrison and to send out her four followers on missions. It’s working out okay and I should be taking her back to Draenor soon after she has earned more gold.

There’s gold in old raids, too. I was clearing 25H Firelands and getting about 125 per boss, plus 6 or 7 items that were worth between 5 and 50 gold. 10H Dragonsoul was 75 gold and 2 or 3 items per boss. Trash was dropping around a gold each. At least, the ones that drop gold and not sharp toenail trimmings were handing out a gold each. You wouldn’t even have to solo it to make a chunk of change, because while trash loot and boss items are shared, the gold itself is not.

I rather expect Blizz to nerf the amount, but for the moment, Cata raids are a great source of buying power. 🙂